always disconerting when one lurched towards the window next to my desk - out the corner of your eye you'd always think they were coming in.

oh, and out the other side was this place;

most intersting bit there was someone unloading a consignment of new 911's and Cayennes who obviously had a bit of brake/acccelerator trouble and parked a brand new cayenne on the bonnet of one of the 911's. She was lead into the building sobbing.

University admin staff standing around smoking, doing chuff all for hours on end and waiting for the catering van to come and fill them with pies. Again.

Oh, hang on this is the "things that you don't see every day out of your office window". My mistake.

Although at least I know where to find them next time they demand that I fill in some pointless piece of job creation/protection paperwork urgently so they can lose it under a pile of Gregs pasty wrappers for 8 weeks and then make me do it again because the date has lapsed........

Croydon.......which i still think is some kind of a social experiment, never known a place to have so many weirdos!

Even the riots couldn't make it interesting, although it was great to get sent home from work early during the riots as the Police tipped us off there was a group of youths in hoodies coming our way, only to later find out that they were foreign students.

From the Gherkin, we watched a small aircraft circling just west of (the Natwest) Tower 42. Level with us on the 16th floor. Must have been very close, we were honestly expecting an impact. Did 3 or 4 passes and buggered off. I scoured the news for the next few days, but there was absolutely nothing...

Over the years I've had (in no particular order),
Several people pissing in doorways,
a guy defacating into a Biffa wheely bin,
two people smoking crack in a car,
two people having sex in a car, (two seperate occasions),
two beauticians getting undressed,
a guy in the appartments opposite tugging one off,
a girl who used to spin round all night in her window (that was just weird),
several naked female students in the appartment windows opposite,
a guy breaking into cars, (we called the fuzz)
a police chase, during which the suspect threw a handgun into the beck,
armed police making an arrest,
a couple of massive mill fires,
two Chinook helicopters,
Yorkshires biggest fountain,
a huge bird of prey we couldn't recognise, but agreed it looked most like a vulture or condor!
Several ketrels striking pigeons
and dozens upon dozens of cyclists going the wrong way down the one way street!!!